We had a Pinto wagon with the 2.3 engine. It was a good engine, except for really sucky valve stem seals made of soft ceramic or something (maybe compressed pound cake? I dunno). They would only last about 75K miles.
I found out a little late, that the cause of the huge cloud of blue smoke around us every time we stopped at a light was those bad seals, but that was after I replaced the first engine over a weekend (I was commuting to a company place in southern NH back then and really needed the car).
I bought a rear window with the defroster wires in it from the dealer (the car didn't come with that) and installed that myself with the greased cord trick, but then I needed a dash switch to turn it on so asked around at work to see what might pop up. We were working for a defense electronics company back then and one of the engineers gave me a push on/push off switch for an F-15 that simply stated:
Speed
Brake
Deploy
I often wondered what the second owner thought that was for..... And how long it took for them to try it. 